Wessex (ˈwɛsɪks) n 1.(Placename) an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in S and SW England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century ad 2.(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a.(in Thomas Hardy's works) the southwestern counties of England, esp Dorset ...
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Wessex(more) During this period, however, kings of Wessex won victories over the Britons, expanding steadily westward. Ceadwalla (685–688) recovered the Isle of Wight and South Hampshire, and there was a Saxon monastery at Exeter before 690. Ine (reigned 688–726), the first West Saxon ...
ofWessex, Sussex remained subject to his successor, Ine (688–726). By 771, Offa ofMerciahad conquered all the marginal kingdoms (including Sussex) into which the South Saxons were divided. They remained under Mercia until joined with other eastern states in submitting to Egbert of Wessex in...
After Wihtred’s death in 725 and Ine’s abdication in 726, both Kent and Wessex had internal troubles and could not resist the Mercian kings Aethelbald and Offa. The great age of Mercia Aethelbald succeeded in 716 to the rule of all the Midlands and to the control of Essex and ...
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Muchelney Abbey on the Somerset Levels was founded by the Saxon Kings of Wessex. Unfortunately it is impossible to be precise about which one, as some of the charters granting land to Muchelney are medieval forgeries. Evidence does suggest that King Ine of Wessex founded the abbey and then Ki...
on this topic is rampant, in large part due to chroniclers' tendency to wildly exaggerate the numbers of enemy armies and the tally of the dead (Evans, p. 27). The size of thecomitatusis put into sharp perspective when one examines the law code of Ine of Wessex at 13.1, which states...
Queen of Scotland and descendants of Alfred the Great of Wessex.Women of the Anarchydemonstrates how these women, unable to wield a sword, were prime movers in this time of conflict and lawlessness. It show how their strengths, weaknesses, and personal ambitions swung the fortunes of war one...
This article argues that the law-code in the name of King Ine of Wessex (r. 688鈥 726) was written in Latin in his reign and only assumed its surviving Old English form in the ninth century when it was translated from Latin and appended to King Alfred's law-code. Linguistic evidence ...